Looking Like a Winner: Candidate Appearance and Electoral Success in New Democracies

A flurry of recent studies indicates that candidates who simply look more capable or attractive are more likely to win elections. In this article, the authors investigate whether voters' snap judgments of appearance travel across cultures and whether they influence elections in new democracies....

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Main Authors: Lawson, J. Chappell H., Lenz, Gabriel Salman, Baker, Andy, Myers, Michael
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Cambridge University Press 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70919
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8174-8728